Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for October 16, 2023

I occasionally play. But i have never “play play”-ed.

What are the chances that the winning numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? And you are still playing?

In Canada, the lotteries pay out about 40% of their revenue in prizes (with no taxes on winnings). Those are the only odds that matter. Those aren’t good odds. (OTOH, a lottery ticket is a pretty cheap way to purchase a fantasy to entertain yourself for a while.)

That money is rolled over into the next draw when no one wins the jackpot. The odds can turn in the customer’s favour when enough accumulates for an enormous jackpot. When the pot builds up to equal more than the amount new ticket sales bring in, buying a ticket makes sense. Even if, for example, you only have a one-in-a-million chance of winning, if the prize is more than a million times the cost of a ticket, then the odds are in your favour.

The lottery is millions of stupid people making another stupid person look smart.

The former copy editor in me can’t get past the first panel.

I find it interesting that in almost every case of a word being used twice in row, incorrectly, it’s because the word is at the end of a line. I think it has something to do with our brains “resetting” for the next line, and as the last word of the previous line is still in our “buffer”, that’s the word we start the next line with…

BTW, I enjoyed the comics about quantum physics and now about statistics. Much more interesting than bad hackneyed puns.

I seem to remember reading about a large group in Australia that bought almost every ticket combination and came out ahead of their investment…

Is play play anything like cray cray?

Doesn’t ‘astronomical’ mean ‘huge?’

In the first panel Betty should have said “No,no.”

Lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math.

How do you “play play” the lottery?